Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
Orwell's dystopia of Big Brother and the Thought Police arrived just months before its gravely ill author's death.
On June 8, 1869, a Chicago inventor patented a hand-powered "sweeping machine"—the awkward ancestor of every vacuum since.
On June 8, 1783, a 16-mile fissure split southern Iceland and spent eight months bleeding lava and toxic gas across the Northern Hemisphere.
